London promoters Broken & Uneven recently revealed the full list of artists and dates for their season of parties under the name The Hydra. Following on from last year’s first set of Hydra parties, which brought labels like Ostgut Ton, Dial, Workshop and more to various London venues, this year’s season looks set to be similarly exhaustive (and, if you by some astonishing feat of self-discipline manage to make it to every party, exhausting), running from this Saturday 24th August until 1st January 2014.
It kicks off this weekend with a heavyweight line-up of Detroit techno pioneers, hosted with Blueprint. Taking place at Brixton’s Electric this Saturday 24th August, and with a few advance tickets still available from here, it hosts three of the city’s second wave techno artists: Robert Hood, Jeff Mills and their alma mater Underground Resistance, who will be presenting their Timeline show. They’re joined by Samuel Kerridge and James Ruskin.
From there onwards, a number of Quietus favourites are appearing across the coming few months. Among them are hardware house don Kassem Mosse, Demdike Stare and Andy Stott, John Talabot, Francois K, neo industrial techno firebrands Karenn, James Holden, a Hyperdub session featuring Kode9, Ikonika, Jessy Lanza and more.
The full Hydra season runs as follows, and you can grab tickets and more information for all of the events here.
AUGUST
24th – Blueprint: Underground Resistance + Jeff Mills + Robert Hood + James Ruskin + Samuel Kerridge, Electric Brixton
25th – Running Back: Tiger & Woods + Gerd Janson + John Talabot, Village Underground
SEPTEMBER
27th – 3 Chairs (Moodymann, Theo Parrish, Rick Wilhite, Marcellus Pittman) + Boddika + Velvit + Endian + Dego + Funkineven + Alexander Nut, Fire
OCTOBER
5th – Electric Minds: Move D + Kassem Mosse (live) + Prosumer + Fred P + Recondite (live), Dolan Bergin, Village Underground
11th – R&S: Derrick May + Space Dimension Controller (live) + dBridge + Synkro + Alex Smoke (live) + Paula Temple, Fire
26th – Turbo: Tiga + Clouds + Sei A + Untold, Village Underground
NOVEMBER
2nd – Bloc/Mutek x Modern Love: Andy Stott (live) + Demdike Stare (live) + Deadbeat, Autumn Street Studio
9th – FMB: Trevino + Genius of Time (live), Studio Spaces
15th – Deep Space: Francois K + Cosmo, Studio Spaces
16th – Bugged Out/BleeD/She Works The Long Nights: Karenn + Midland + Sunil Sharpe + special guest, Studio Spaces
22nd – Dial: Roman Flugel + Lawrence + John Roberts (live), Studio Spaces
23rd – Border Community: James Holden + Luke Abbott + Daphni, Studio Spaces
30th – Hyperdub: Kode9 + Ikonika + Jessy Lanza (live) + Fhloston Paradigm + special guests TBA, XOYO
DECEMBER
6th – Ninja Tune present Solid Steel 25th Anniversary: Trevor Jackson + Coldcut meets The Orb + Actress + Illum Sphere + PC + DK + DJ Food & DJ Cheeba & DJ Moneyshot (Paul’s Boutique Set), Hexstatic (Solid Reel) + James Mountain and special guests TBA, Fire
7th – TBA
31st – Bugged Out NYE: TBA
JANUARY
1st – Electric Minds/Aus: Mano Le Tough + Glimpse + Move D + Endian + Fold + Dolan Bergin + guests, Fire
